Quotes About Effort

these sleepless nights, when oddly enough my concentration was high, fueled perhaps by the effort to ignore the all-engrossing threat of bombs and rockets.

I think perhaps education doesn't do us much good unless it is mixed with sweat.

There is no excuse for not trying.

Have you ever noticed that if there's a hard way and an easy way, you choose the hard way every time? Why do you think that is?

We must act, knowing that our work will be imperfect.

None of These Will Come Easy.

este libro es para esos jóvenes: una invitación a rehacer el mundo una vez más, y hacer realidad, a base de esfuerzo, determinación y una gran dosis de imaginación, unos Estados Unidos que por fin reflejen todo lo mejor que llevamos dentro.

We choose hope over fear. We see the future not as something out of our control, but as something we can shape for the better through concerted and collective effort.

there would always be a chasm between what I knew should be done to achieve a better world and what in a day, week, or year I found myself actually able to accomplish.

How useful is it to describe the world as it should be when efforts to achieve that world are bound to fall short?

work is essential.

there's a direct link between doing your work and having your wishes come true.

Because, you know, contrary to the song of a great American master, we're generally not born to run. Most of us are born to run a little bit and go back home.

Rarely do your efforts bear fruit right away; the scale of most problems coming across your desk is too big for that, the factors at play too varied.

With so much effort being poured into church growth, so much press being given to the benefits of faith, and so much flexing of religious muscle in the public square, the poor in spirit have no one but Jesus to call them blessed anymore.

You don't just luck into things as much as you'd like to think you do. You build step by step, whether it's friendships or opportunities.

Easier isn't always best.

job searching, properly undertaken, should be far more time-consuming than an actual job: "If you have a job, then you might have the luxury of working 9:00 to 5:00. If you're getting a job, then plan on twelve to sixteen hours a day."1

N]o matter how much effort we expend, not everything is potentially within our control, not even our own bodies and minds. [...] The body - or, to use more cutting-edge language, the mindbody - is not a smooth-running machine in which each part obediently performs its tasks for the benefits of the common good. It is at best a confederation of parts - cells, tissues, even thought patterns - that may seek to advance their own agendas, whether or not they are destructive of the whole.

los empresarios confiaban en que el pensamiento positivo aplacara a las víctimas de las reestructuraciones y fomentara en los supervivientes las ganas de hacer un esfuerzo aún más heroico.

The truly sinister possibility is that for many of us, all the little measures we take to remain fit—all the deprivations and exertions—will only lead to a longer chance to live with crippling and humiliating disabilities.

No credit given for all the extra miles that take you nowhere.

He would have no inkling of the great slog of effort that tied up people like her in the day-to-day.

Oh, and the camel. Was it a camel that could pass through the eye of a needle more easily than a rich man? Or a coarse piece of yarn? The Hebrew words are the same, but which one did they mean? If it's a camel, the rich man might as well not even try. But if it's the yarn, he might well succeed with a lot of effort, you see?